Re: Speed Testing and Throughput testing

2009-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the most commonly used) tool for in-depth high speed testing was already mentioned, iperf. Another useful tool if you're trying to troubleshoot tcp issues is http://www.tcptrace.org/. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:09:40PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am AS14270. BGP with me... its been two years... you've got to have an engineer who can set up a session by now, no? Sounds like someone needs to send you a copy of They Just Don't Want To Peer With You. :) -- Richard

Re: Small guys with BGP issues

2009-11-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
or authority to change providers? Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but the emails so far haven't been very clear and this isn't making a lot of sense. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: Small guys with BGP issues

2009-11-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
want. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Small guys with BGP issues

2009-11-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/BGPcommunities.pdf /shamelessplug -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
that it wasn't learned from a customer they will blindly readvertise it, providing unintentional (and typically unwanted) transit. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 06:35:31PM -0500, Dorian Kim wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 06:27:38PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: 1) Old stodgy tier 1's who have communities but don't want to share them with the world, because of silly NDA concerns or the like. This covers a I'm curious

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: And I'll conclude my argument with this: whois -h whois.radb.net | grep remarks: Err insert AS3356 in there, sorry failure in proofreading. I'll leave it there, but clearly this is being done by many other large networks

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
another provider who better respects the rights of free speech on the Internet (if the above is what actually happened). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. If you are hosting any content yourself, you should really go to http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/ and file for a designated agent. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

2009-10-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with HE.net and get back together again? ^_^ Matt (speaking for neither party, but very happy to eat cake nonetheless) Cogent Pleas IPv6... for some reason that cake typo is even funnier than the correct version. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net

Re: Maximum devices in OSPF area 0

2009-10-19 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
purposes, not for sensible network design. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering

2009-10-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
they're probably going to continue to miss huge chunks of IPv6 for many years to come. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent leaking /32s?

2009-10-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
advertise something longer. This issue is probably best expressed as you are highly unlikely to have full global Internet reachability if you announce something longer than a /24, not you are highly unlikely to have anyone accept your announcement if it are longer than a /24. -- Richard A Steenbergen r

Re: Keepalives are temporarily in throttle due to closed TCP window

2009-09-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
counters on the bgp neighbor. http://cisco.cluepon.net/index.php/Using_capture_buffer_with_ELAM http://cisco.cluepon.net/index.php/6500_SPAN_the_RP My money is still on MTU mismatch. Assume the simplest and most likely explanation until proved otherwise. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net

Re: Keepalives are temporarily in throttle due to closed TCP window

2009-09-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/products_configuration_example09186a008010edab.shtml#c4 Your best bet (in order of most preferable to least) is to a) fix whatever is breaking path mtu discovery on the 7206vxr in the first place, b) force the mss of the ibgp session to something under 1460, or c) lower the mtu on the ds3 interface to 1500. -- Richard

Re: Keepalives are temporarily in throttle due to closed TCP window

2009-09-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a problem. I once saw a bug where Cisco miscalculated the MSS when doing tcp md5 (off by the number of bytes that the tcp option would take, I forget which direction), but I'm sure that's fixed now too. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Keepalives are temporarily in throttle due to closed TCP window

2009-09-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
payloads, sourced from your side of the /30 and pinging the far side, and using the df-bit to prevent fragmentation. Failing that, make sure you aren't doing anything stupid with your control plane policiers, maybe try turning those off to see if there is an improvement. -- Richard A Steenbergen r

Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-09-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
before the other side gets budgetary approval to sign the PO for the optics that they need to do the upgrade but don't own seems to be inversely proportional. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-08-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for interfaces with lots of drops globally. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Packet Loss on Level3

2009-08-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
throttled icmps Take a look at a presentation I did at NANOG 45 for more details. http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Sunday/RAS_traceroute_N45.pdf -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves

2009-08-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
know whats being done on undersea cables though. Eventually this will get better too, and 40G will become the native wavelength standard with 10G being muxed onto them, similar to what we saw with the transition from 2.5G-10G 10 years ago. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
) as part of those problems. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of months. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
mess. We really shot ourselves in the foot with the complexity of RPSL, which tries to be everything to everyone rather than actually provide a simple effective way to maintain prefix-lists. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535

Re: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/RAS_irrdata_N44.pdf -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:06:49PM -0400, Joe Provo wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:16:38PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: [snip] Unfortunately the distributed nature of the databases is one of the biggest problems with the IRR system. Anyone can run an irrd, there is You

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
-transitory defamation. This seems like a group that could benefit from knowing those two words. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
public lists lately ;-P ) At the risk of adding to the metadiscussion, I've never seen anyone die from having a car that accelerated too slowly. Unfortunately I think encouraging Randy to drive cars with bad brakes would be against the NANOG charter. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net

Re: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to go. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.

2009-07-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:22:22PM +0100, Bailey Stephen wrote: I previously ran a single 7609 with dual Sup720's as a Core Internet BGP Router, running OSPF iBGP It's hard to classify a single router as a core, don't you think? -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e

Re: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.

2009-07-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
about (such as core links) use your limited resources only on interfaces you do care about (such as edge links). Until they come out with the EARL8 SUPs (what have they pushed that back to now, 2011? :P) you are basically SOL in the netflow dept. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net

Re: Border routers

2009-07-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of educated guess at all. Either find someone with experience to consult for you, or buy something new and shiny that is complete overkill and will last you for years. I think the Juniper MX is the most scalable platform in terms of FIB capacity right now, thanks to their RLDRAM architecture. -- Richard

Re: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.

2009-07-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.

2009-07-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
platform hardware capacity fabric, though you should keep in mind that these counters are about as accurate as the others on this platform (wild variations at best). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
is specific to the other network or even to a specific session which you can't possibly know about remotely (e.g. their router id). -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: tor

2009-06-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
don't just sell transit to any spammer who comes along without researching them a little first, why should this be any different? -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: tor

2009-06-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
content I don't think but your honor I was running tor is the defense you're looking for. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: tor

2009-06-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
but no further, you might end up looking like you were aiding and abetting. Bottom line, this simply isn't common carrier activity, and when these anonymous users decide to abuse your trust you are the one who will suffering the consequences. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the important acquire connectivity to the global routing table step (I assumed it was implied, but I guess it wasn't), but if you're down with their 5 v6 routes as transit you should be golden. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC

Re: Traffic billing - L2 encap to include or not?

2009-06-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to guess. At any rate, this is a discussion better suited for juniper-nsp mailing list. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?

2009-06-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
because they don't want to try and understand the difference between a SX GBIC and a class 3 ultra longhaul amp. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?

2009-06-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and far between, and copiously labeled when you do come across them. Spend 5 minutes teaching people what the laser classes and how how to read the label. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: IXP

2009-04-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in the US) has its own unique challenges. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: [SPAM-HEADER] - Re: Diversity - was: Fiber cut in SF area - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses

2009-04-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
platform I know of has done at least 80 channel 50GHz spacing at the same cost as a 40ch solution for quite a few years now. Only in the metro space does the statement above hold true. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204

Re: [SPAM-HEADER] - Re: Diversity - was: Fiber cut in SF area - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses

2009-04-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
extremely poor latency choices, and reduces the cost to deliver the service. As always, the benefits of such a system depend on both the carrier's and the customers' footprints. I suspect you'll start to see more of this in the future, as Level3 seems to be adopting it. -- Richard A Steenbergen r...@e

Re: BGP FlowSpec support on provider networks

2009-04-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
party flowspec speaking piece of software which shall also remain nameless, and managed to blackhole their entire network for a noticeable amount of time. As with anything combining the words network wide protocol and packet filter, a healthy amount of user discretion is advised. -- Richard

Re: Comprehensive community Guideline and Policies for an AS

2009-02-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
people are assuming vendors are more prepared than they actually are, not understanding that most of the functionality and testing is for little more than l3vpn support. Try rewriting your policies to support both regular and extended communities and see how easy it is. :) -- Richard

Re: [Nanog-futures] The Peering BOF and the Fallout?

2008-02-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Wholeheartedly agreed. Even a $5 alarm clock with a big LCD on the stage would be an major improvement, it's difficult to tell how you're doing for time or if you should speed things up or slow things down when you're in the middle of a presentation. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Nanog-futures] The Peering BOF and the Fallout?

2008-02-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
their content, not the other way around. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) ___ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org http

Re: [Nanog-futures] The Peering BOF and the Fallout?

2008-02-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:28:06AM +1000, Philip Smith wrote: Richard A Steenbergen said the following on 25/2/08 08:21: Making a special exemption for Bill Norton (a member of the SC, which elects the PC) could easily give the impression of undue favoritism to the outside world

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